Uprooted by war, today’s 68.5 million refugees are often branded as threats — turned back at borders, left to perish at sea, or detained indefinitely in horrific conditions, Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, as he called for a return to dignity, human

The Security Council will hold more than 20 meetings in November, including important open debates on peacekeeping operations in Africa and the strengthening of global multilateralism, its President for the month said at a Headquarters press briefing today. Presenting an overview of the 15-member Council’s “very full” programme of work, Ma Zhaoxu (China) said his

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya’s rival parliaments agreed on Wednesday to work together to reform state institutions in an attempt to unify government authority in the oil producer, officials from both sides said. The North African country has two governments, the U.N.-backed administration in Tripoli and a rival one based in the east, part of an ongoing power

TRIPOLI, United Nations (UN) Envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame on Wednesday warned that the UN would impose sanctions on those obstructing the implementation of the newly-approved security arrangements in the Libyan capital Tripoli. Salame made his remarks during a meeting with Libya’s UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez Serraj, and the Security Arrangements Committee (SAC) in Tripoli.

GENEVA A new radio drama series co-produced by the U.N. Migration Agency and several Nigerian agencies working on migration and trafficking issues aims to deter people from risking their lives by making the dangerous journey to Europe. The series will be broadcast in Pidgin and Yoruba languages in six Nigerian states. Speed FM in Edo

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